• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t speak Spanish, but do Spanish authors pull the same shit English ones do, where they give characters absolutely nonsense names with ambiguous pronunciations? Is it even possible? I will read a name of a character or place and spend the next 20 chapters reading the word twice or three times in different ways.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      My biggest gripe with spanish is J having the “ha” sound. Juan is spelled “Hoo-an”, Jesus is “Heh-zus”, etc. If you can get over that, the rest is mostly phonetically sound, like portuguese

      • Skates@feddit.nl
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        5 months ago

        I think you’ll find even in Spanish Juan is still spelled Juan and Jesus is still spelled Jesus.